TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2396, 8 September 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN,

London, Sept. 4. She ship Auckmountain was insured for £20,000. The ship Alumbagh was wrecked in a hurricane in the Altantic. Thirty-five lives were lost.

Sept. 5. The Queen has given £IOO to the Bridgend Colliery Relief Fund. Howarth, secretary of the Crown Building Society, Sunderland, stands committed for trial on a charge of embezzling £12,000. The Daily Chronicle's Cairo correspondents says that the British troops will evacuate the city, except the garrison of the citadel, at the end of the year, and withdraw to Alexandria. Mr William O'Brien state* that Curran's loan of £SOOO from Australia enabled them to fight the elections; otherwise they would have been penniless. Paris, Sept. 4.

The action of France in constructing a fortified harbour at Bisertu, in Tunis, at a cost of £600,000, is causing some excitement in Italy and Austria.

Berlin, Sept. 4,

A German ship has been ordered to prevent the natives under the dominion of the German New Guinea Company from engaging themselves as labourers for other parts of the world.

Sept. 5

A new Army Bill will be introduced in the Reichstag, next session, providing for an increase in the Army expediture of 70,000,000 marks (about £3,500,000) annually. This increased expenditure will probably be met by the imposition of a further duty on beer and a Government monopoly of the growth of tobacco.

St. Petersburg, Sept. 5

A great fire has devastated the town of Milua, and four thousand persons are without food.

Russian officers of the cruiser Labigiak defend their action in seizing sealers at Copper Island, on the ground that as all sealers are driven from Behring Sea by British authorities they are not going to be allowed to pursue their calling with impunity on the Asiatic shores. Washington, Sept. 5. Whitter, the poet, is in a critical condition.

The President has accepted nomination by the Republican party, and has issued a manifesto, in which he declares that the reciprocity treaties entered into with various countries have increased trade between them and the United States by 23 per cent. He expressed the conviction that the free coinage of silver at such rates as will maintain its equality with gold will conduce to the prosperity of the world.

Mexico, Sept. 5

It is reported that the fort at Santa Oruz fired on and sank a British steamer for failing to stop at the quarantine station.

Vancouver, Sept. 4-

Sealers of Victoria are reported to be in despair at the lethargy of the Imperial Government.

Buenos Aykes, Sept. 4. The arrest of eleven officers prevented a military rising in the Argentine.